All Chapters of BLOODBOUND - THE VAMPIRE TRIALS: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

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SHE BITES

ValkharaI felt them before I saw them.The quiet of the forest snapped like a string pulled too tight. The pressure behind my eyes pulsed, the bond flaring to life again as two distinct threads yanked at my spine.Azric.Sevrin.I stepped away from the cottage door, fingers twitching with leftover fire. The silence that had wrapped around me since Nyra’s psychic mute potion was shattered just like that. The moment they got close, their emotions came with them.Jealousy. Possession. Fury.Need.Gods, it hit me like smoke in my throat.Nyra looked up from the table, still stirring her tea like she wasn’t about to witness the supernatural equivalent of a pissing match.“Uh-oh,” she said. “Dickheads incoming.”I spun toward the clearing just as they stepped into view.Azric came first, silent and sharp, violet eyes practically glowing in the shade. He was in black again—elegant, tailored, his hair tousled like he hadn’t slept. Behind him came Sevrin, shirtless, furious, silver-blue eyes

Last Updated : 2025-07-12

TEA TIME

ValkharaIt was surreal.I was sitting at Nyra’s rickety-ass table, sipping magical tea from a chipped cup with two blood-drunk, bond-crazed vampires on either side of me like we were at some dysfunctional family brunch.Sevrin looked like he was one eye twitch away from burning the whole cottage down. Azric kept glancing at every herb jar like one of them was cursed, which, to be fair, they probably were.Nyra? Unbothered. Cross-legged on the counter, barefoot, stirring her mug with a cinnamon stick like she wasn’t hosting two immortal soulmates and a walking magical time bomb.“So,” she said, “how’s everyone feeling now that we’ve acknowledged the forest wants to eat one or all of us?”Sevrin scowled. “Do you always make jokes when talking about ancient powers that can flay us alive?”“Only when I’m stuck in a room with two undead control freaks and a girl who accidentally started a forest soul tether.”Azric raised his cup and muttered, “To bad decisions.”“I heard that,” I said.H

Last Updated : 2025-07-12

DIRTY THOUGHTS

ValkharaThe walk back to the castle was slower than it needed to be.Not because of the distance, but because of the tension. The kind that wrapped around your ankles and dragged every step into something… heavier. Wilder. Unspoken.Azric walked on my left, Sevrin on my right like I needed a full escort just to make it through the forest. Their silence wasn’t comfortable. It was loaded.Sevrin’s gaze kept flicking to me like he was waiting for me to bolt again. Azric’s hands stayed in his pockets, but his thoughts?Oh, I could feel them pressing at the edge of my mind like they were waiting to be let in again.I ignored them both.Mostly.“You know,” I said after a long stretch of silence, “you two could’ve just sent a raven. Or a guard. Or literally anyone not obsessed with marking me.”Sevrin snorted. “You think we’d trust anyone else with you now?”“That’s not flattering. That’s prison.”“It’s protection.”“It’s control.”Azric spoke up finally. “It’s the bond. And you know it.”I

Last Updated : 2025-07-13

LOVE BITES

Valkharawhen the towel hit the floor so did my last shred of self-control.I should’ve run. Should’ve slammed the door and locked it behind me. But the look in their eyes? That unhinged, starved heat? It rooted me to the floor like my legs forgot what fleeing meant.Azric’s pupils were blown wide, his lips parted like he was tasting my thoughts. Because he was.And Sevrin? He didn’t even pretend to be calm. His chest heaved with every breath, muscles tight, jaw locked like he was holding back a war.“You don’t want this,” I whispered to myself, lying to all three of us.Azric’s smile was wicked. “That’s funny. Because your mind is screaming otherwise.”I lunged to slap him.He caught my wrist mid-air and spun me so fast my back hit his chest. “Still pretending, Valkhara?”“Fuck you.”Sevrin was already moving.He crossed the room in two steps, hand at my throat, fingers gentle but firm—just like before.“You want this,” he said low. “Say it.”“I—”“Say it.”Azric brushed his lips aga

Last Updated : 2025-07-13

MY BLOOD IS FIRE

ValkharaWhen I woke, the room smelled like sex, blood, and danger.Sevrin was on one side of me, arm slung over my waist, his breathing slow but still tense like his body hadn’t stopped guarding me even in sleep. Azric lay on the other, one leg draped over mine, fingers lazily tracing the bite he’d left on my breast like he was drawing runes in my skin.I didn’t move. Not yet.Because beneath the haze of soreness and bond-induced satisfaction, something darker coiled in my gut.I didn’t come here to be claimed.I didn’t enter the Trials for a mate—let alone two.I came to win. To survive. To earn power strong enough to protect the ones who couldn’t protect themselves. My people. My bloodline.And here I was naked in a bed I hadn’t chosen, marked by two men I barely knew, while the Council waited to see if I was a weapon or a weakness.No.I would not be their pawn.And I sure as hell wouldn’t be anyone’s pet.I peeled Sevrin’s arm off me gently, sliding from the bed and wrapping myse

Last Updated : 2025-07-13

BLOOD ON HER LIPS

ValkharaI didn’t return to the suite right away.Not because I couldn’t.But because I didn’t know what I’d do if I saw them.Sevrin. Azric. The bond.Everything inside me still vibrated with magic. With violence. With blood.Caelun’s blood still stained my arms, dried beneath my fingernails. My leathers were torn, soaked in the iron stink of a kill I didn’t regret.Because I didn’t just win.I dominated.I didn’t just survive.I made them watch.The Council. The nobles. The enemies. The allies. All of them watched as I tore a man apart with my bare hands and declared myself fire-born and unbent. And the worst part?I liked it.Power had never fit me so perfectly.By the time I made it back to the suite, the sky outside had gone a dusky crimson. Twilight bleeding into darkness.I opened the door quietly, expecting silence.What I found?Was them.Sevrin sat in front of the hearth shirtless, legs spread, one elbow on his knee, his blade in his lap sharpening metal that didn’t need to

Last Updated : 2025-07-14

SMOKE AND MIRRORS

ValkharaThe Mirror Chamber was silent when I entered.Not peaceful. Not calm.The kind of silence that screamed.No footsteps echoed. No wind stirred.Only magic pulsed in the walls alive and waiting.The door sealed behind me with a deep, final thud.I didn’t flinch.I wouldn’t give them that.Glass surrounded me ceiling to floor. Every wall reflected the room, the door, the pedestal in the center.But not me.I had no reflection.And that was the first warning.The enchanted hourglass waited atop the pedestal. Tall, slender, its sand deep red like powdered blood. The moment I crossed the threshold fully, it flipped itself.The Trial had begun.Let your mind speak.I took a breath.The air was too still. Too thick.I didn’t trust it.Then it started.The mirrors rippled not like water, but like skin and shifted.Images flashed, then vanished.A battlefield. Fire. Screams.Me, drenched in blood, sword in hand.Me, kneeling. Collared. Bound.Me, begging someone I didn’t recognize not

Last Updated : 2025-07-15

TRIADBOND

ValkharaI was lying on the floor.Not gracefully. Not dramatically. Just… flat.Wrapped in a thick blanket, hair still crusted with blood from the Mirror Chamber, one eye cracked open as I stared at the ceiling like it might offer divine answers.It did not.Sevrin sat in the corner sharpening a blade...again.Azric paced near the balcony, pausing only to glance at me every few seconds like he wasn’t sure if I’d combust or throw up.I didn’t blame him. I wasn’t sure either.The burn from the Trial still lingered under my skin. Not physical, but magical. Emotional.Worse.The bond with Sevrin and Azric pulsed low in my chest, steady but heavy. And beneath all of that?Something else.A faint pulse.Distant. Unsteady.Not from either of them.Not mine.But still... connected.It came and went in short, aching bursts. Like someone screaming underwater.Like a chain rattling behind a locked door in the back of my head.I sat up too fast and groaned. Azric appeared beside me instantly.“Y

Last Updated : 2025-07-16

FLAMEHEART

ValkharaThe chamber was nothing like the arena.It didn’t bleed. It didn’t echo. It whispered.A stone table dominated the center of the space, long, dark, carved with old runes that pulsed with soft red light. Seven chairs sat around it. One for each faction. One for each survivor.Only five of us remained.And not all of us would leave.Above us, behind walls of enchanted glass, the Council watched.I didn’t look up.I didn’t need to.Let them stare. Let them whisper.Let them feel what was coming.“Lady Valkhara,” one of the guards said flatly, gesturing to a chair near the table. “Take your seat.”I did not move.He blinked. “It’s mandatory—”I took two steps forward, then stood behind the chair. Not sitting. Not bending. Not playing.Let them notice.The other contestants filtered in slowly.One male from the southern bloodline tall, broad, proud. I’d seen him gut a chimera like it was made of paper.One witch-born woman from the dusk provinces sharp eyes, silent lips.One vampir

Last Updated : 2025-07-17

BETWEEN FIRE AND FANGS

After our post-sex haze and the intrusion of him, I walked out of the shower to Azric waiting by the fire.Sevrin standing with his back to the room, blade pressed to a whetstone he wasn’t even using.Both of them looking like they were hanging on by a fucking thread.I sighed but I didn’t speak.I didn’t need to.Azric’s eyes narrowed. “You didn’t say anything at today."I dropped into the nearest chair. “Nope.”“And they chose you anyway.”“They felt me.”Sevrin turned around slowly, something dark in his expression. “That wasn’t just your power though, twas it?"My mouth went dry. “I don't know”“I think it may be mine, but something else pushed it.”I hesitated. "I heard a voice. THAT voice we all heard earlier.”Both of them froze.Azric crossed to me, fast, crouching in front of the chair.Sevrin’s fists clenched.“Could be the third,” Azric muttered.“I think…” I swallowed hard. “I think he’s trying to help me. Even from wherever he is.”Sevrin’s jaw flexed. “Or manipulate you.

Last Updated : 2025-07-17

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